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Have you ever deceived your wife-audio purchase

This could lead to a hysterical thread. How many audiophiles have come home with an expensive amp/preamp/and told their wife they bought it for practically nothing? Only to have paid 3-4K they had in their private stash? How many audiophiles have secretly installed a new "toy" in their audio system thinking their wife wouldn't notice. My old girlfriend thought anything beyond a boombox was excessive. Whenever I would upgrade my system,I would come up with some far fetched tale(lie) Would love to hear your story.......
krelldog
nutella
223 posts
 
My wife says to me "I thought you already have a good stereo".
Or there's the "well, it's your money". Fortunately, I handle the finances in our house but I still need to tell her something when she asks how much a piece costs (usually around half). As long as I don't spend the vacation fund, I'm OK. She just looks at me puzzled when I get a new piece. It is not the $. She just does not understand. Now if someone would just make an invisible amp...
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tillmbil
3 posts
 
And I thought I was the only one. I bought it used from a friend. Everything shipped to work and paid for by cashiers check.
dbx
58 posts
 
O.k., now that we found that we're not alone in this shadowy world of double dealing and strechting the truth, I think we need to start a support group for when we do get caught? and you will one day. Me, I'm lucky, I can't afford 3 or 4 thousand for a component, so when I do get caught it's only over something that cost a couple of hundred. which is usally one days overtime, aleast thats how I explain were the money came from.
cylinderking_1
130 posts
 
YA RIGHT, I now feel that I am a used car salesman !!!!!!!!
chalkme7834
1 posts
 
I begged and pleaded for six months before I got permission to buy my $2200 Paradigm Studio 100 speakers last month.

Then I made a rookie mistake, she found the receipt for $400 worth of cables.

I haven't had any sex since. sigh. Worth it, though.
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